What's the difference between rapt and transfixed?

Rapt


Definition:

  • () of Rap
  • () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
  • (a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
  • (a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
  • (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
  • (a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
  • (a.) Rapidity.
  • (v. t.) To transport or ravish.
  • (v. t.) To carry away by force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This image has then been superimposed over another of her large and apparently rapt audience.
  • (2) There was a lot of rapt attention in the room,” said Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger.
  • (3) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
  • (4) The high court in Pretoria, South Africa, sat in rapt silence as Steenkamp's words were heard in the case for the first time.
  • (5) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
  • (6) At its marvellous best, Seven Streams creates a rapt spell of mesmerising intensity."
  • (7) But the change of direction is signal – and worth watching with rapt attention.
  • (8) The former came during a technical rehearsal for Misterman in New York: Cillian Murphy , totally wrapped up in his role, was absorbed in talking to the sole character's mother on a tape-recorder while the production manager, Eamonn Fox, sat a few feet away raptly fixing a table leg.
  • (9) One segment, a detailed analysis of Arsenal’s recent loss to Chelsea , attracts rapt attention, and cheers at the conclusion.
  • (10) Only Chelsea supporters could have sat rapt in the Stamford Bridge lecture room.
  • (11) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
  • (12) Whatever he said, his very presence at such a tense time would have guaranteed rapt attention – one reason why his sermon was not, as is usual, broadcast live on state TV whose cameras are mounted permanently in the university mosque.
  • (13) They listened, rapt, to their hero, Viktor Yushchenko, whose handsome face had been ravaged by a recent dose of dioxin.
  • (14) When Drummond appears, the McDonald's workers listen to his introductory speech in a silence that could either be rapt (he's extremely charismatic) or just bewildered (the explanation is quite a convoluted one, involving recreating the sound of a choir that he could hear singing in his head).
  • (15) "I just finished the entirety of the Chinese military shovel video," writes a rapt Daniel Stauss, "and I must say, hats off to the gentleman at 2:04 who did a spectacular job of julienning that potato with a shovel.
  • (16) The commanding hand gestures quieten and she goes still, often looking intently at the table or at her hands, a picture of rapt attention.
  • (17) A wildly energetic performer, as comfortable on stage as on screen, Rivers was still playing to huge, packed auditoriums such as London’s Albert Hall as recently as 2012, where, at the age of 79, she performed for 11 nights to sellout crowds and rapt applause.
  • (18) And authentic in a way that kept the audience silent throughout - not because they were bored, but because they were rapt in attention.
  • (19) Beyoncé also made an unannounced appearance, leading a rapt audience of fans and music executives through a soaring singalong of her latest single XO.
  • (20) In fact, they appear to be rapt: there's something arresting about the fact that hardly anyone seems to be filming proceedings on their mobile phones, which makes it a fairly remarkable event in the annals of modern-day gig-going.

Transfixed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Transfix

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (2) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
  • (3) In a series of trials involving a uniform axial load, different transfixing wire tensions, and the separation of paired proximal and distal rings, fragment displacement was measured.
  • (4) Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis.
  • (5) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
  • (6) The adjacent vertebrae were transfixed by two 3-mm Steinman pins placed vertically.
  • (7) We concluded that patients with non-union following high tibial osteotomy for osteoarthritis of the knee should undergo resection of the pseudarthrosis and transfixation compression as the treatment of choice.
  • (8) The windows become viewing stations to stare out of – transfixed by every small jet that magically lifts from the ground carrying tonnes of travellers and trinkets.
  • (9) The distal phalanx was then transfixed to the bone graft by 2 crossed-K-wires.
  • (10) The monofixateur is indicated for treatment of closed, open and infected fractures, pseudarthrosis, osteotomy adaption, arthrodesis and joint transfixations.
  • (11) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
  • (12) According to the principles of treatment for other tarsal injuries, we carried out open reduction with joint debridement, reconstruction of ligaments and internal stabilization with transfixation screws.
  • (13) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
  • (14) Sahloul stood transfixed, the scene unfolding like a silent movie in front of him.
  • (15) With a stiff catheter in the urethra, via a horizontal 'H'-shaped perineal incision and through the puborectalis sling, the rectum was mobilised and the fistula transfixed.
  • (16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
  • (17) Because of delayed treatment, transfixation of carpal bones (necessary for stability), and surgical trauma, degenerative joint disease with osteophyte formation occurred in all 5 horses.
  • (18) Temperature measurements were performed during drilling, smooth part penetration (transfixing pins), tapping, and screwing.
  • (19) Rotational displacement was limited the most by transfixation between the vertebral bodies (position one or two).
  • (20) In order to prevent the making of a triangular-shaped crown, a false transfixed core removable is built over the intramobile component of the IMZ as well as pa periodontal ring.

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